"Occupy Wall Street" may have started as a grassroots effort, but the labor unions appear to be in the process of taking over the anti-capitalist movement. Transit workers united with protestors at Zuccotti Park earlier in the week, with the blessings of Transit Workers Union President John Samuelsen.

Samuelsen expressed the desire that the protests would “bring change to the state capitals, and in particular, change to Washington.” He decried the “unfair burden” on working families and hung the blame for it on the backs of the “wealthiest folks in the country, who are getting off scot-free.”

Labor groups made their protest participation manifest in other parts of the country as well, including Boston, Massachusetts and Seattle, Washington.